G_Rupp Is Fresh To Death, Ya Heard?

People say the darndest things. Especially when those people are elite runners - who usually have publicists, agents, and managers hovering over them, but occasionally get an opportunity to say whatever they want.

"Rollin in my Nike boots or stompin in my air force 1's. However you wanna say it I stay fresh to death."

Now, we have no idea what that means. But it's one of many personal updates from Galen's Twitter account (http://twitter.com/G_Rupp[4]).

For those not familiar, Twitter is a "micro-blogging" service, which means people can write whatever is on their mind, so long as it's 140 characters or less. These updates are called "tweets."

We can't help but wonder if Galen's tweet is a song lyric, or if he's naturally that poetic.

Twitter, they say, is the next big thing among the "digerati" (a fancy way of saying "influential members of the online community"), according to this article[5] from AdvertisingAge. Apparently that's true for the runnerati, too, as we found several more elites who tweet.

After scouring dozens of tweets for interesting and odd information, we bring you this list of Random Things We Learned From Elite Athletes' Twitter Accounts That We Didn't Need To Know, But Now We Do, So We're Telling You, Too:

Bryan Clay[9]: "Headed out for sushi and a movie with my wife. First date night in more than two months. I gotta do better than that!" Also, the guy can't seem to get enough coffee[10]. He writes about the stuff almost daily.

Tyson Gay[11] stopped tweeting on August 15. Gee, I wonder why he became shy all of a sudden? (AHEM[12]) Poor chap.

Lolo Jones[13] has zero updates, but still managed to attract 29 followers. Even more more befuddling, her handle is "rungrinch." Perhaps she likes Dr. Seuss?

Now I open the floor to you, dear readers. What tweet would you most like to see from an elite athlete? Perhaps paularadcliffe: "My physio bills are piling up as fast as I re-injure myself. Everyone buy my book! It's only 6 quid. http://tinyurl.com/ck43w7[14]"

RELATED: If you're on Twitter, you can also get the latest updates from a certain running magazine - ok, us - at twitter.com/runnersworld[15].